ISO/IEC 27014 – Information Security, Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection

ISO/IEC 27014 – Information Security, Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection How businesses can improve and strengthen their information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection through the latest update to ISO/IEC 27014. Good governance has always been at the heart of successful organisations. It is suggested that the term ‘governance’ derives from the ancient Greek word ‘kubernáo’ meaning…

Importance of Integrating Risk Into QMS for Project Management

Importance of Integrating Risk Into QMS Abdullah Shaiban, Project Inspection Supervisor at Saudi Aramco – a multinational petroleum and natural gas company – highlights the importance of integrating risk into a quality management system. ISO 9001:2015 provides a framework which organizations can apply to their quality management system (QMS) to deliver sustainable development solutions and…

Role and Responsibility of Top Management in Quality Management System

Top Management in QMS In our latest dilemma, Chris Achillea, UK Head of Compliance at Integral, UK, explains how the quality managers can encourage senior teams to take the ownership and more responsibility for their management system(s).  Dilemma The QMS manager for a national service delivery organisation has scheduled a formal quarterly management review meeting…

Adopting Strategic Audit To Improve Audit Quality

Strategic To Improve Audit Quality Hadi El Cheikh, Quality Health and Safety Executive at Veolia Water Technologies, Middle East, explains how a strategic approach can lead to a more successful audit on the assessment day. Most of us will still remember the times when the third-party auditor(s) came and met the quality management representative to…